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The following is a list of Jewish political milestones in the United States. *First Jewish member of a colonial legislature (South Carolina): Francis Salvador (1775) *First Jewish soldier killed in the American Revolutionary War: Francis Salvador (1776) *First governor of Jewish heritage of a U.S. state: David Emanuel (1801) *First Jewish member of the U.S. Congress/U.S. House of Representatives: Lewis Charles Levin (1845) *First Jewish heritage member of the United States Senate: David Levy Yulee (1845) *First Jewish mayor of a major American city (Iowa City, Iowa): Moses Bloom (1873) * * Two years later, Bailey Gatzert became a mayor of Seattle (1875) *First elected Jewish governor of a U.S. state: Washington Bartlett (California) (1887) *First Jewish Cabinet member/Secretary of Commerce and Labor: Oscar Straus (1906) * *Not including Judah P. Benjamin, who served in the Confederate cabinet as Secretary of State and War *First Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Louis Brandeis (1916) * *President Millard Fillmore offered to appoint Judah P. Benjamin to the Supreme Court in 1853, but Benjamin declined. *First Jewish female member of the U.S. Congress/U.S. House of Representatives: Florence Prag Kahn (1925) *First person of Jewish ancestry to run for President of the United States on a major party ticket: Barry Goldwater (1964) *First Jewish candidate to receive an electoral vote for Vice President: Toni Nathan of the Libertarian Party, from a faithless elector (1972) *First Jewish Secretary of State: Henry Kissinger (1973) *First Jewish female mayor of a major American city (San Francisco): Dianne Feinstein (1977) *First Jewish female governor: Madeleine M. Kunin (1985) *First Jewish openly gay member of the U.S. Congress/U.S. House of Representatives: Barney Frank (took office 1981, disclosed homosexuality 1989) *First senate election in which both major party candidates were Jewish. (1990 Minnesota U.S. Senate Election) (1990) *First independent Jewish member of the U.S. Congress/U.S. House of Representatives: Bernie Sanders (1991) *First Jewish female members of the United States Senate: Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (1993) *First Jewish female Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1993) *First Jewish nominee for Vice President of the United States on a major party ticket, and first Jewish candidate to receive an electoral vote excluding faithless electors: Joe Lieberman (2000) *First Jewish elected official representing large constituency to serve past ninety years of age: David Cohen (2004) *First Jewish whip in the U.S. House of Representatives: Eric Cantor (2009) (also first Jewish party whip in either house) *First openly gay Jewish Congressman to be openly gay upon first election: Jared Polis (2009) *Number of Jewish Senators rises from thirteen to fifteen (15% of all American Senators vs. approx. 2% of the general population) (2009) *First Jewish floor leader in the U.S. House of Representatives: Eric Cantor (2011) (also first Jewish floor leader and Majority Leader in either house) *First Jewish mayor of minority descent: Eric Garcetti, elected mayor of Los Angeles (2013) *First Jewish female Cabinet member/United States Secretary of Commerce: Penny Pritzker (2013) == See also == * List of Jewish American politicians 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Jewish political milestones in the United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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